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Show 1 FARM NEWS NOTES f i t BY LEW MAR PRICE ? f County Agent f , I Emergency Farm Loan Act Ready To Function In Beaver County Application blanks for loans from j the federal land bank for the pur- j chase, reduction, and refinancing of farm mortgages under the Agricul-! tural adjustment act have arrived. George P. Low, secretary of the local i federal ,fa9m loan association, has just received the blanks and will pre-! pare the applications by authorization authoriza-tion of Mr. William H. Woolf, agent farm loan commissioner in the Berkeley Berk-eley Land Bank district. Mr. Low is attempting to meet applicants at an office in town; and plans are being made to set one or more days on which he will meet Minersville and Milford applicants-at applicants-at centrally located places in their towns in order to get going as fast as possible. It is advisable for all to get their applications prepared at the earliest possible date so they can be filed and the appraiser can take care of them all on the first trip to the county. Failure to do so may cause serious delays. The regulations and limitations are too lengthy to be given here, but are designed to greatlyy ease the farm mortgage situation, and will cover most of such difficulties existing here. Information can be secured from either Mr. Low or your county agent. Successive plantings of summer vegetables will give the greatest value val-ue in family food supply, and the most satisfying because of greater palatability. This is the time to start these plantings if it has not already al-ready been done. All vegetables can be used then just when they are i at their best. If left until the first plantings are ready for use before starting the new planting, there will be a time when the supply is either! inadequate or of poor quality. i i Alfalfa Crop Shows Slight Weevil j Damage I Up to the present time this season the alfalfa weevil has done little or ! no damage in Beaver County, and (Continued on last page) bell, detached from navy servce to act as metiical officer for the two Beaver county camps, also accompanied accom-panied the party to the camp, not as yet having been furnished with a car with which to make his trips between the two camps some 90 miles apart. Conditions at the camp were found to be fine, considering the fact that it was necessary to change the camp to the present location in preference to the original selection and also the fact that varying, and sometimes almost al-most contradictory, orders are received re-ceived from headquarters from day to day, leaving the camp officers in very much of a quandary at times. With the plenteous spring water ditched throughout .the naturally grassy camp area so as to keep everything ev-erything fresh and with a minimum of dust, the boys are comfortable and happy, seemingly, though" some of them, especially those from Virginia, are no doubt getting some brand-new brand-new experiences in the way of cedar post cutting and post-hole digging. Something like 120 square miles are to be fenced eventually in this area, according to information coming ' to The Xews, and for this purpose 40,-j 40,-j 000 cedar posts and a huge quantity of wire and staples are to be used. The fenced areas will be utilized in winter range conservation research work under a setup planned by Dr. George Stewart of the forest service. The Beaver canyon camp, heretofore hereto-fore located at Little reservoir, near the upper Telluride power plant, has been moved to the vicinity of the Tushar ranger station and is known as Camp Delano, so-named for Delano De-lano peak, a landmark in that section, according to Captain N. C. Snidow, j commandant, who was in Milford ! Monday, in- company with Lieutenant j Gobbell, both of them calling on C. ! A. Pryor, camp cook, who is conva-j lescing nicely at the Milford hospital i from an appendectomy performed j last Friday night. Captain Snidow speaks in glowing j terms of Milford and the hospitality j and friendly help he has had on every j hand from Milford townspeople something which, incidentally, has brought our town country-wide notice innumerable times in the past. ! Both Beaver county camps havej thus far been remarkably free from sickness, especially the desert camp, the extreme high altitude at the I mountain camp having bothered the Virginia youngsters to some extent. County Agent Notes! (Continued from first page) with the first crop as nearly grown as it is in most parts of our county it is doubtful if it will reach damaging damag-ing proportions. However, the extent of next year's infestations will depend de-pend on the success of what weevil are permitted to mature this year, according to reports of Mr. G. I. Reeves, head of the government offices of-fices of weevil investigations located in Salt Lake City. The adult weevil lives over the winter on the roots and crowns of the alfalfa plant. When the weather becomes warm in the spring these adults emerge and lay their egjs from a few in number to 600 or 700 depending on temperature. The higher high-er temperature are conductive of high egg production and quicker and greater hatchability. These higher temperature are shown to occur in fields with poor standi where unshaded spots of ground exist. The eggs are laid in the dry stems on the ground, or at the base of growing planta. These eggs hatch in 2 1-2 to 3 weeks when they are exposed ex-posed to the warm sun as in the bare spots, while in the cooler shaded portions por-tions of a good stand it may take twice as long for these pests to emerge. em-erge. This explains why fields of alfalfa with a poor stand show heavier heav-ier infestation and greater weevil damage than neighboring field where a good stand shades the ground. in order to prevent the weevil from going into the adult stage and endangering en-dangering next year's crop, early cutting cut-ting of infested fields has proven justifiable. This is also another reason why poor stands of alfalfa should be broken brok-en up this fall and some other feed crop grown in its place for two or three years at which time the alfalfa could be replanted and much higher yields secured. |